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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga586
Years after, the student, then attained to eminence, is reported as saying:
“That was the best zoölogical lesson I ever had—a lesson whose influence
has extended to the details of every subsequent study; a legacy that the
professor left to me, as he left to many others, of inestimable value, which
we could not buy, and with which we cannot part.”
Apart from the value to the student of the particular information obtained,
was the quickening of the perceptive faculties, that enabled him to observe
the important points in a subject or object, and, consequently to deduce
important information from that which was observed. The Mind is hungry
for knowledge, and it has by years of weary evolution and effort built up
a series of sense systems in order to yield it that knowledge, and it is still
building. The men and women in the world who have arrived at the point of
success have availed themselves of these wonderful channels of information,
and by directing them under the guidance of Will and Attention, have
attained wonderful results. These things are of importance, and we beg
of our students not to pass by this portion of the subject as uninteresting.
Cultivate a spirit of wide-awakeness and perception, and the “knowing” that
will come to you will surprise you.
Not only do you develop the existing senses by such practice and use, but
you help in the unfoldment of the latent powers and senses that are striving for
unfoldment. By using and exercising the faculties that we have, we help to
unfold those for the coming of which we have been dreaming.
Mantram (Affirmation).
I am a Soul, possessed of channels of communication with the outer
world. I will use these channels, and thereby acquire the information and
knowledge necessary for my mental development. I will exercise and
develop my organs of sense, knowing that in so doing I shall cause to unfold
the higher senses, of which they are but forerunners and symbols. I will be
“wide-awake” and open to the inflow of knowledge and information. The
Universe is my Home—I will explore it.